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---> Sneak Preview: Click here to see a BBC interview with Zalmen Mlotek describing the Yiddish influence on American Jazz. A great forshpayz (appetizer) of what's in store on January 18th.

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Join Zalmen Mlotek, the Artistic Director of the National Yiddish-Theater Folksbiene, in a multi-media historical edu-tainment about the Yiddish theater with interactive audience participation.  Presentation follows full beygl breakfast (see below).

Hailed as the "runaway hit" of the Berkeley Jewish Music Festival, this elegant piece by Zalmen Mlotek celebrates the Jewish musical accent in American theater. Spanning all genre of Yiddish theater, from the wine cellars of Romania, to Yiddish versions of operetta arias; from humorous vaudeville ballads to backstage renditions of Fiddler on the Roof; from the originals of klezmer music to a special Yiddish-English tribute to Gilbert and Sullivan.

HEAR Yiddish melodies transformed into Irving Berlin, Cab Calloway and George Gershwin jazz numbers.

LEARN how songs like "Vatch Your Step" (1911), "Fifty Fifty" (1912), and "Lebn Zol Kolumbus" (Long Live Columbus) helped immigrants adjust to Di Goldene Medine (The Golden Land).

HEAR how the vaudeville houses on the Lower East Side became the Golden Age of 2nd Avenue, where Yiddish theaters and shows entertained thousands of people all eager to have a connection with the lives they left behind in the old country.

All songs are translated or have supertitles shown on a screen along with photos and historic documents.



You may RSVP by emailing us (events@yiddishkayt.org) your name and number of people in your party (up to 4).  RSVP not necessary to attend.

Produced by Yiddishkayt, the Valley Cities Jewish Community Center (VCJCC), and the California Institute for Yiddish Culture & Language (CIYCL).

 

Join the Valley Yiddish Culture Club for a presentation by Yiddish Theater expert and accomplished Actress and Director, Sabell Bender (a Founding Board Member of Yiddishkayt).  Sabell was an actress with the former Los Angeles Yiddish Folksbiene and has directed over fifty productions from Moliere, Gogol and Shaw to the American playwrights, Miller, Wilson and Wilder.  "Jacob Adler: The Greatest Yiddish Actor" will be presented in English and Yiddish.  Refreshments served following the program.

1/16 Valley Beth Shalom presents Ghetto Tango
In the Jewish ghettos of Poland and Lithuania during World War II, a world of dislocation, terror and death, cabaret music thrived.  Jewish audiences gatheres in makeshift clubs and theaters to hear newly-created Yiddish songs, rooted in Jewish folk and liturgical music as well as European operetta, American ragtime and Argentine tango.  Jewish performers tuned these cosmopolitan songs in a local key: satirical and elegiac, political and personal, angry and heartsick.  Together they created something rare, scarcely conceivable: art at the edge of the abyss.

Adrienne Cooper, one of the world's most acclaimed singers of Yiddish vocal music, and Zalmen Mlotek, a leading figure in Yiddish musical theater, present Ghetto Tango. 

JOB DESCRIPTION:

• Assist with research, planning, and facilitating cultural and educational events.
• Communicate with members, artists, and community through email, phone, mail, and internet.
• Support board and committee meetings.
• Assist with marketing, PR, fundraising and grant writing activities.
• Maintain library of resources and communicate with citywide Yiddish groups.
• Assist with database management.
• Assist in daily administration of a non-profit arts/culture organization.
  

EXPERIENCE: We seek an organized, creative, and motivated multi-tasker with excellent written and interpersonal communication skills.  Computer knowledge is a must (Mac preferable).  Knowledge of Yiddish, the nonprofit sector, and the Los Angeles Jewish community is helpful, but not necessary.

ELIGIBILITY: Intern candidates can be involved in all areas of undergraduate study.

START DATE: ASAP

COMPENSATION: College course credit

LOCATION: The Wiltern Office Tower, 3780 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 1000, Los Angeles, CA 90010  (The intern will have their own workstation with a computer and phone.)

SEND COVER LETTER & RESUME TO:
info@yiddishkayt.org
or by fax to (213) 365-0702